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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I had dinner with Mike Harvey from Octave this weekend. Mike acquired the intellectual rights, tooling, drawings and jigs needed to manufacture the S2's. I believe that newly manufactured S2's will be available very soon. M...
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At some point last year, after I had been offered an opportunity to buy some Vitavox S2 drivers from someone in Paris, and some S3s from Germany, I decided to approach Mike Harvey of Octave Audio, AKA Vitavox Hifi, to get some information about how I...
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So in an effort to learn something about the way the 288 and S2 sound the way they do, what do you suppose the mechanical differences in the construction of each driver that causes the differences in sound as they look so similar physically?
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I believe you use the laser to find out at what frequencies there are resonances and where they are at so youcan make the phase plug accordingly but like I said I know about as much as those lasers as I saw in the Tad brochure. A machinist told me on...
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Hi how did your vitavox speaker project go?Im looking for a 1956/57 single original cone 15/40 to complete my vitavox project. Anyone got one?...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Best case, a system will have both great tone and plenty of "headroom" to play the Music you want to hear the way you want to hear it. We've discussed before that AN systems are pretty responsive, with great tone, but they do not...
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[URL=http://s75.photobucket.com/user/murrayjohnson/media/bigvitavox-1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/murrayjohnson/bigvitavox-1.jpg[/IMG][/URL]...
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Adrian,
If you are still in MF frustrations then I have something that you might find interesting. Recently I pick up in UK a pair of Vitavox S3 drivers. They out to be with original metal cones. I do not need them but the price was too good to let ...
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[quote user="drdna"]Very interesting, it is certainly worth a try. Do you have the information on frequency response, impedence, etc? [/quote]http://website.lineone.net/~empson/S3.html...
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My understanding : This is simply what's left of the original Vitavox. The original founder had an interst in quality audio; the current owner(s) seem to have an interst in government contracts ($?). I'm not sure, but seem to remember that the curren...
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Romy wrote:"...The use of the Vitavox AK151 driver is very good. They went for 8-ohm coil. Well, this is interesting. Srajan promoted in his article Kevin and SET devote and then Kevin drops the AK151 impedance from 16 to 8 ohm..."According to the V...
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The Heil AMT drivers are well known in audio. There is a cult of people who follow them and they swear that Heil drivers are like nothing else. The Heil drivers were made by ESS, by Scandinavian, by German’s pro audio and by Russians. The do use defe...
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hi alli found a company in china wich can produce the compression drivers on my request. has anyone the exact specifications and drawings of the vitavox s2 driver ? that's of course essencial to get them made. i will also send a email to t...
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It is complicated. Any tweeter is different and the RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter is more different then others. Almond any other tweeters that I heard this tweeter has something absolutely unique- it has no annoying upper MF nose. When I asked Alex to...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I had dinner with Mike Harvey from Octave this weekend. Mike acquired the intellectual rights, tooling, drawings and jigs needed to manufacture the S2's. I believe that newly manufactured S2's will be available very soon. M...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Not yet. I'll give him a call & put details of the reply here.[/quote]Guy, when you will be taking with Mike then here are some taking points for you if you wish:
1) What type of magnet Mike is planning to use in his new...
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[quote user="coops"]If you are correct there should me a large gap in the market for any company that really cares about sound. Returning to the topic of the thread, have you noticed wide discrepancies in the 'sound' of S2 drivers even between driver...
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I really would like the Vitavox users who use the bottom region of S2 driver to pay very serious attention to my post above. The redaction of compression in this driver and dropping the resonance frequencies does impacts the lower knee sound of the d...
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I did a lot of those experiments a few years back, stuffing the back chamber of S2 driver with all imaginable things. During that time I did not use a dedicated lower MF channels and was concerned only about the S2 top end. I did not detect any diffe...
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I kind of fed up to receive those emails (I ordinary do not reply them) with questions and therefore I would a would make one atypical public statement and it will be it. I say “atypical” as I truly do not care about your purchasing habits, still sin...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]You might write a venous attack on Vitavox but it would be about 12 years too late! [/quote]
Why not write about the Vitamix instead then? It may attract an
Emm Labs Harmonizer so that it can produce music and chop veg...
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…. I would suggest trying to drive this driver with a single stage solution with no capacitance - you might find it very very very very very very educational.
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=4241
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Again, Romy, nothing short of amazing that time, energy and focus came together for you! And good to hear that you are still getting Music from old CDs. I hope it goes just as smoothly for you when you turn back to LPs.If you said anything about your...
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Ah, such a beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful discovery!
After all, after the years of dealing and fighting with it I come up with the observation that the Vitavox S2 driver could and actually should be used “as is”. The harshness that I was re...
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I have posted this idea at the Peter’s Vitavox site a few month back but there is no activity at that site. It sucks that there are no advanced S2 users out there. I am planning to try it myself and in a month or so and will report the result. ...
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Thanks for the picture Romy. I couldn't unscrew the top threaded piece myself. Perhaps I was turning it the wrong way?! Any guidance you could give on dismantling the driver would be appreciated.
Regarding the active flux modulation idea; I think yo...
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Romy, I presume this is with the new production diaphragms? Just wondering if the old ones might restore some of the youthfullness which was diminshed by the field coil?...
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This is the project that I been thinking to undertake for years. I have motioned about in multiple times that Vitavox’s S2 lower region is very lucrative but unfortunately not exactly useable if the driver run all the way up, unless you are wiling to...
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Romy reading in your site, i got interested in the vitavox ak151. do u have an idea, if it would sound considerably better in a cornerhorn, than my altec 416's ? i got a offer for 900 pounds a pair. what do u think abought deqx ? Angelo...
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